Dave Madden - #66

Actor dave Madden has died. He was number 66 on ht elist.

Madden, 'Partridge Family' agent, dies in Fla.

Comic actor Dave Madden, who played the child-hating agent on the hit 1970s sitcom "The Partridge Family," died in Florida on Thursday at age 82.

Madden died at a hospice center near his home in the Jacksonville area, his niece Mary Frances Miller said.
Towering and rumpled, Madden was best known for his role as Reuben Kinkaid, who managed the Partridge family band and regularly clashed with its impish pre-teen bassist, played by Danny Bonaduce.
While the series starred Shirley Jones, with her real-life stepson David Cassidy as the resident heart-throb, it was Madden and the freckle-faced Bonaduce who became the reigning comic duo.
Jones said Madden "made the show, I felt."
"His relationship with Danny Bonaduce is what made the show work: this strange, mad little boy and the grown man who was even worse as a father figure," she said Thursday. "It was hysterical!"
But though Madden played a guy bedeviled by the youngsters who surrounded him, Jones said that off-camera he "loved kids."
And Bonaduce later wrote how during his troubled youth Madden served as his surrogate father.
Before "The Partridge Family," Madden was part of the ensemble on the "Laugh-In" comedy series, sipping and sometimes spitting milk along with joining in the show's zany sketches and crazy jokes. He later had a recurring role as one of the customers at Mel's Diner on the long-running sitcom "Alice."
Madden was born in Ontario, Canada, and grew up in North Terre Haute, Ind. He began show business as a nightclub comic and then landed his first acting job on the short-lived sitcom "Camp Runamuck" in the mid-1960s. Dave appeared in Eat My Dust! It was the first movie developed by Ron Howard.

Madden later had a recurring role as diner customer Earl Hicks on the mid-1970s to mid-1980s sitcom, Alice. During his career, he also appeared on such series as "Bewitched," ''Barney Miller," ''Happy Days," ''The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island." Madden began voicing several characters on Focus on the Family's radio drama Adventures in Odyssey in the late 1980s. In 1990, he received his own regular character in the curmudgeonly window-washer Bernard Walton.

In 1995, Madden appeared on the sitcom Boy Meets World in the episode "Rave On". His last guest appearance was on Sabrina the Teenage Witch where he played Dr. Egglehoffer.

In 2007 he published a memoir, "Reuben on Wry."

Survivors include his wife, a daughter and a son.

Filmography

Film and television

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1965–1966          Camp Runamuck              Counselor Pruett              18 episodes

1967      Bewitched           Joe         Episode - "Super Car"

1967      Accidental Family             Tom       Episode - "Everywhere a Chick Chick"

1968–1969          Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In          Regular Performer           26 episodes

1969      Bewitched           Fred       Episode - "Samantha's Shopping Spree"

1970–1974          The Partridge Family       Reuben Kincaid 96 episodes

1972–1973          Love, American Style      Howard / Walter Lerner                Segments - "Love and the Topless Policy" and "Love and the Singing Suitor"

1973      Charlotte's Web                Ram (voice)        Feature film

1974      The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped            Stanley TV movie

1974      Happy Days         Jack Whippett    Episode - "Big Money"

1976      Eat My Dust!      Big Bubba Jones                Feature film

1976      ABC Afterschool Special                 Coach Puckett   Episode - "Mighty Moose and the Quarterback Kid"

1977      Starsky & Hutch                Phil Hill                 Episode - "Starsky and Hutch on Playboy Island"

1977      Mulligan's Stew                 Elliot      Episode - "A New Grandpa"

1978      This Is the Life    Roman Centurion             Episode - "The Stableboy's Christmas"

1978      Barney Miller     Clayton Walsh   Episodes - "Eviction" (Parts 1 & 2)

1978–1985          Alice      Earl Hicks             35 episodes

1978      The Love Boat    Wes Larsen         Episode - "El Kid/The Last Hundred Bucks/Isosceles Triangle"

1978      Flying High          Reception Clerk                 Episode - "Fun Flight"

1979      Fantasy Island    George Crane    Episode - "The Red Baron/Young at Heart"

1979      Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol         Stanley Gershen               TV movie

1980      When the Whistle Blows               Roscoe Baker     Episode - "Miss Hard Hat USA"

1980      More Wild Wild West     German Ambassador      TV movie

1981      The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo           Sidney   Episode - "The Girls with the Stolen Bodies"

1982      Richie Rich          Additional voices              Episode - "Dollar's Exercise/Richie's Cube/The Maltese Monkey/Everybody's Doing It"

1985      CBS Storybreak Arnold's Dad      Episode - "Arnold of the Ducks"

1986      The New Leave It to Beaver         Mr. Johnson       Episode - "How's Your Bird?"

1986      Life with Lucy     Stanley Bigelow                Episode - "Lucy Make Curtis Byte the Dust"

1989      Marvin: Baby of the Year               Jeff Miller (voice)             TV special

1992      The Ben Stiller Show       Mr. Kinkaid         Episode - "Pilot"

1994      Married... with Children                Manager              Episode - "How Green Was My Apple"

1995      Boy Meets World             The Manager     Episode - "Rave On"

1998      Sabrina the Teenage Witch          Dr. Hans Egglehoffer       Episode - "Good Will Haunting"

Radio

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1988–2008          Adventures in Odyssey Various Characters/Bernard Walton         97 episodes